2017-02-16 Leeward Exh A (REZ 16-215 & SMA 16-066)

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Mr. Kay, would you like to make the presentation? KAY: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, Commission. So as the Chair stated, we are going to go ahead and just do a presentation for both applications, both the rezone and the Special Management Area Use Permit. If I can direct your attention to the screen. This is a location map of the subject parcel and surrounding area. The subject parcel is located in the South Kohala District of Hawai‘i Island. It’s here outlined in red – sorry it’s a little bit difficult to see. It is located makai of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway and to the east of Mauna Lani Drive. Access is off of Ho‘ohana Street, which runs generally east-west through the slide. This is a part of the Mauna Lani Resort area, which is here makai of Ho‘ohana Street and to the highway. The subject parcel and surrounding areas to the east, west and south are zoned Agricultural 5-acre, as indicated by the light-green color on the map. Across Ho‘ohana Street there is areas of Multiple-Family Residential zoning indicated with the brown and mustard colors and some Resort zoning indicated in purple. The State Land Use Boundary designation for the subject property is Urban, as indicated in pink. There is some surrounding Agricultural to the west and south, and that’s indicated in green. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designates the subject property and much of the surrounding area in the Resort Node indicated in purple, and to the east is some Urban Expansion, which is indicated in the black thatching. Pardon me, this is mislabeled; this is a Special Management Area Map for the area. So all of the subject parcel and surrounding area is in the Special Management Area, and that’s why we are having a concurrent SMA Use Permit for this application. Here is an aerial photograph of the subject property again outlined in red. Ho‘ohana Street is running generally east-west, makai of the subject property. There is an existing roughly 6,600-square foot structure on the property; this is the former site of the Seagull School at Mauna Lani, which was a preschool and daycare that was set up for workers at Mauna Lani. It was approved under a Use Permit in 1990 and operated until 2013 when it closed down. You can see there were two driveway accesses to the property, one in to the driveway, pardon me, to the parking lot here, and then out. The other kind of circular structures here, not structures, but features here, are old playground pads. You can’t see it very well, but there is a fence along the mauka portion of the parcel that kind of jogs in here, and that was put in place to help to create a 15-foot buffer around some historical features that were on the adjacent parcel. So the applicant is requesting a Change of Zone from an Agricultural 5-acre to an Industrial-Commercial Mixed Use 20,000-square foot zoning district for 1.756 acres of land. A Special Management Area Use Permit to modify and incorporate an existing, vacant 6,667-square foot building and parking lot and add two additional buildings and additional parking to support a 20-unit commercial and light industrial lease space for businesses, offices, self-storage and a restaurant café. The applicant proposes to develop the project in two phases. Phase 1 will focus on the expansion of the existing 6,667-square foot building to create eight commercial and light industrial spaces for lease to local businesses including a restaurant and café or café. The applicant is also proposing an additional 1,000-square foot building to be developed as a self-storage business as part of Phase 1. The second phase will include a single-story, 8,220-square foot building to accommodate up to ten additional spaces for lease. The parking lot will also be improved and expanded from 21 to 68 paved parking spaces. Construction of the first phase is expected to begin 2 EXHIBIT A